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(1851) Laws and Ordinances of the State of Deseret (Utah) Compilation 1851

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(1851) Laws of Deseret not conflicting with the Organic Act of the territory were reenacted by the first territorial legislature and ordered to be revised and classified. Willard Richards, Secretary of the State of Deseret, published the 1851 compilation, which was reprinted verbatim in 1919.

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58 be exempt from working on any road or roads beyond the limits of said city; but all taxes devoted to road purposes shall, from and after said term of two years, be collected and expended by, and under the direction of the supervisor of streets, within the limits of said city. Sec. 47. This ordinance is hereby declared to be a public ordinance, and shall be in force from and after its passage. JEDEDIAH M. GRANT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. HEBER C. KIMBALL, Speaker of the Senate. Approved, Feb. 6, 1851, BRIGHAM YOUNG, Gov. Thomas Bullock, Clerk. AN ORDINANCE, to incorporate Parowan City, in Iron County. Passed, February 6, 1851. Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the General Assembly of the State of Deseret, that all that district of country in Iron county, in this State beginning at the dam, above the saw-mill, in the mouth of the kanyon, on Centre creek, and running from thence north-east along the base of the mountain two miles; thence north three miles; thence west six miles; thence south to the base of the mountain; thence along the base of the mountain in a north-easterly direction, to the place of beginning,-including the present location,- shall be known and designated as Parowan City, and the inhabitants thereof are hereby constituted a body corporate and politic, by the name aforesaid, and shall have perpetual succession, and may have and use a common seal, which they may change and alter at pleasure. Sec. 2. The inhabitants of said City by the name and style aforesaid, shall have power to sue and be sued, to plead and be im-pleaded, defend and be defended, in all courts of law and equity, and in all actions whatsoever, to purchase, receive, and hold property, real and personal, in said City; to purchase, receive, and hold real property beyond the City for burying grounds or public purposes, for the use of the inhabitants of said City; to sell, lease, con-

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Original Book: Laws and Ordinances of the State of Deseret (Utah) Compilation 1851